The Indian Board of Control opted
for the first half of the summer of 1967 for her short visit, at a risk of
encountering colder and wetter weather, in order to allow a break before the
long tour of Australia and
New Zealand
the following winter. This argument was negated by the Board having accepted
to an invitation to tour East Africa for a
month afterwards, although this added £1200 to their profit.

The Indian government had
turned down the Cricket Board’s request to send a team to England in
1965.

Rain fell almost every day in
May and brought the tourists to the First Test completely out of practice on
English wickets.

The talented but underconfident
Indian batsmen were usually swept aside easily by shrewd English bowling,
except in the heroic fightback at Headingley. There was a lack of fast bowlers
and when they were unfit Kunderan, the reserve wicket-keeper, had to open the
bowling. The tour party contained too many moderate all-rounders and relied
excessively on its strong hand of spin bowlers who took their due share of
wickets but at a disappointing cost. Denied recent overseas touring experience
by India's
foreign exchange problems, the young tour party had little chance of
resisting a formidable English seam and spin bowling attack,

The team lost all three Test
matches and achieved wins only in the minor fixtures. At least the tour finances
were healthy, making £8000 in England
in addition to the profit in East Africa.